Miscellaneous NHL Discussion XCIII: Spring has Sprung

[Harold Bingo]

Brady Skjei has 18 goals? What?

 

[TCTC]

I just saw that he has scored 30 PP goals this year. That's the most in one season since Lemieux 27 years ago.
Ovechkin's career high is 25.

Will be interesting to see the Oilers in the playoffs this year. Best offense and worst defense.

 

[Chicken N Raffls]

It is one isolated instance but descriptive of the medium. In a rare time listening to any sports radio show, I recall a fan calling ESPN's national show and touting the CAR-EDM series of a few years ago. The ESPN host -- remember the King of Sports or whatever they referenced themselves -- said in so many words "No hockey talk Whenever I think of hockey I think of someone named Sven in Minnesota living in his parent's basement." If that was said about any other particular fanbase, for a moment think of womens' basketball since that is the genesis of this current conversation, would the host have a gig the next day? ESPN is a blighted and bloated self-promoting and grandiose scourge that has too many mimicks to even count. And it was a wonderful product at one point when the hosts and anchors put the highlights first and the attitudes second or even better non-existent.

I loved 90's Sportscenter. Haven't really watched anything on ESPN since then other than actual games. Coming home after school and watching ESPN back then, you never knew what you'd get. Could be monster trucks, no name wrastlin leagues, roller derby, motocross, anything. I'd still take roller derby over the "reality TV" that's it is now. Beef is right

 

[Magua]

Hits 30 for the 2nd time in his glorious career.

 

[Harold Bingo]

Ottawa’s goalie rockin’ the yellow glove is an interesting look.

 

[Starat327]

Hits 30 for the 2nd time in his glorious career.

The only thing that pains me about this season is that Giroux won't be able to get his 1000th point against the Flyers.

Ottawa’s goalie rockin’ the yellow glove is an interesting look.

He just came over from Liga, i believe, and probably couldnt get an Ottawa colored set yet

 

[Rebels57]

Detroit Win and Flyers cruising towards a Loss. Nice.

 

[MacDonald4MVP]

Brady Skjei has 18 goals? What?

It's like provorov that one year, outlier

 

[Cody Webster]

I just saw that he has scored 30 PP goals this year. That's the most in one season since Lemieux 27 years ago.
Ovechkin's career high is 25.

Will be interesting to see the Oilers in the playoffs this year. Best offense and worst defense.

Almost as many as the Flyers have all year

 

[MacDonald4MVP]

I just saw that he has scored 30 PP goals this year. That's the most in one season since Lemieux 27 years ago.
Ovechkin's career high is 25.

Will be interesting to see the Oilers in the playoffs this year. Best offense and worst defense.

Someone's gotta put up all goals video soon, but Drai is basically like left handed ovechkin on the pp this year. It's just snipe city with passing ability on top.

Brayden Schenn has played 424 games for flyers and he already has 421 for Blues. Just goes to show you how long we've been enduring this shit show.

 

[Flyerfan4life]

good ole Roo... what a bad captain..

 

[Striiker]

smh Hextalls awful drafting strikes again

 

[freakydallas13]

Hits 30 for the 2nd time in his glorious career.

The cherry on this clip is the announcers talking about how they would rather have Ghost than Chychrun right before G pots his 30th.

 

[Chicken N Raffls]

good ole Roo... what a bad captain..

If only he wanted to win though. Team G 4ever

 

[VladDrag]

smh Hextalls awful drafting strikes again

I truly believe TK is a 90 point player, with other offensive elite level talent.

His underlying stats, such as these and some of his tracking stats, show how much better he is than the rest of this team.

 

[Redpath]

Searching "Hextall" on Twitter is becoming my new favorite pastime. Quite therapeutic.

 

[Rebels57]

Searching "Hextall" on Twitter is becoming my new favorite pastime. Quite therapeutic.

 

[Rich Nixon]

good ole Roo... what a bad captain..

Ghost is the guy on the Canes who watched it happen and then sold that the Sens player did it. Beautiful.

 

[Rebels57]

At this point, the only team we have to worry about passing is Vancouver. They are 4 points ahead and both teams have 5 games left. Our schedule looks tougher though.

There's also an outside chance Arizona could catch the Flyers. They are 4 points behind but we have 1 game in hand. Not likely.

 

[Rebels57]

Didn't see this posted yet but this article does a great job, thanks to Meghan Duggan, at highlighting what "Pride Night" is all about and why it's important.

How Meghan Duggan's 'powerful' speech ahead of Maple Leafs Pride night came together

Meghan Duggan jumped at the opportunity to educate Leafs and Marlies players about why Pride nights and inclusion are important.

theathletic.com

“It’s not about endorsing certain values,” she explained in an interview with The Athletic on Tuesday night. “It’s just about saying to a group of people that have been excluded in so many different areas of their life that ‘you’re welcome here.’”

 

[Audible Velvet]

Didn't see this posted yet but this article does a great job, thanks to Meghan Duggan, at highlighting what "Pride Night" is all about and why it's important.

How Meghan Duggan's 'powerful' speech ahead of Maple Leafs Pride night came together

Meghan Duggan jumped at the opportunity to educate Leafs and Marlies players about why Pride nights and inclusion are important.

theathletic.com

Too many people ignore this point. Many will regardless of being explained or not. They simply won’t ever accept “those people” and continue to see them as a threat

 

[Beef Invictus]

Ghost is the guy on the Canes who watched it happen and then sold that the Sens player did it. Beautiful.

Intangibles

 

[Beef Invictus]

People like Provorov would rather not have them around, though. They'd prefer they go back into hiding.

 

[WIP CALLER]

At this point, the only team we have to worry about passing is Vancouver. They are 4 points ahead and both teams have 5 games left. Our schedule looks tougher though.

There's also an outside chance Arizona could catch the Flyers. They are 4 points behind but we have 1 game in hand. Not likely.

I wouldn’t even say there’s an outside chance they catch Arizona. They are in free fall mode, have lost their last 8 and have been blown out their last 2 with one being against the lowly sharks. I’d be surprised if they win a single game the rest of the year let alone the minimum 3 of their last 4 needed to pass the flyers with the flyers losing out. We are pretty much locked in at 7 imo.

 

[Starat327]

Didn't see this posted yet but this article does a great job, thanks to Meghan Duggan, at highlighting what "Pride Night" is all about and why it's important.

How Meghan Duggan's 'powerful' speech ahead of Maple Leafs Pride night came together

Meghan Duggan jumped at the opportunity to educate Leafs and Marlies players about why Pride nights and inclusion are important.

theathletic.com

I imagine it's hard for these people(and I'm not defending the point of view) to say "you're welcome here" when they all thoroughly believe these people shouldn't just not be here, but not exist.